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24.01.2022 Have you ever pondered how mysteriously AMAZING a tree, or the grass or the sky is!? #wildaware #tree #grass #sky #animals

24.01.2022 Build diverse and resilient communities. There is a special kind of excitement around here when we find something we have never seen before. This beautiful bee... is a testament to the diversity of our permaculture system. Avoiding all kinds of synthetic chemicals is critical to supporting life. Everything is connected. Kill one thing and whatever relies upon it will also suffer. How easily we forget this ancient wisdom. #permacoach #permacoaching #permaculture #nativebees #diversity #nswcentralcoast See more

13.01.2022 Breaking News: the market will be re-booting in the New Year back at Lismore Shopping Square. Next markets are Jan 3rd & 17th, our 33rd anniversary! Huge thanks... to the Showground Trust Chair, John Gibson, and Secretary-Manager Mark Bailey, for their support & assistance. Thanks also to the 'Booty Community' for your support <3 Happy Christmas and we'll see you in the New Year! :-) See more

11.01.2022 Apologies to all my #kyogle customers, but for a 2nd week in a row, I'm afraid we won't be at the Kyogle Farmers Market tomorrow. Flooding in Lismore delayed the urgent car repairs and I don't currently have any transport to make it to the markets, though I'm hopefully picking up the van tomorrow middayish. For those customers with orders, I'll try to arrange a Kyogle pickup spot during the week, or if prefer can collect from stall next weekend, we will be trading as norm...al during the xmas holidays. Please don't hesitate to call and place an order if you need delivery prior to Christmas. Apologies for any inconvenience, 2020 has been rough, but we really value your loyalty through it all.

08.01.2022 What must the world have been like before we started destroying the fungal networks and the biomass in soil? According to mycologist Merlin Sheldrake, fungal c...onnections effect the type of volatile oils and metabolites a plant produces, the tastes, the smells, the textures of our food. "A plant's fungal partners can have a noticeable impact on its growth -- and its flesh. A number of years ago at a conference on mycorrhizal relationships, I met aresearcher who had been growing strawberry plants with different communities of mycorrhizal fungus. The experiment was simple. If the same species of strawberry was grown with different species of fungus, would the flavour of the strawberries change? He conducted blind taste tests and found that different fungal communities did seem to change the flavour of the fruit. Some had more flavour, some were juicier, some were sweeter. When he repeated the experiment a second year running, unpredictable weather swamped the effects of mycorrhizal fungi on the taste of strawberries, but a number of other striking effects surfaced. Bumblebees were more attracted to the flowers of strawberry plants grown with some fungal species, and less attracted to others. And the appearance of the berries changed depending which fungi they partnered with. Some mycorrhizal communities made the berries look more appealing, some less so.... Most plants -- from a potted snapdragon to a giant sequoia -- will develop differently when grown with different communities of mycorrhizal fungus. Basil plants...produce different profiles of the aromatic oils that make up their flavour when grown with different mycorrhizal strains. Some fungi have been found to make tomatoes sweeter than others; some change the essential oil profile of fennel, coriander and mint; some increase the concentration of iron and carotenoids in lettuce leaves, the antioxidant activity in artichoke heads, or the concentrations of medicinal compounds in St John's Wort and echinacea. In 2013, a team of Italian researchers baked loaves of bread using wheat that had been grown with different mycorrhizal communities. The bread was subjected to testing with an electronic nose, and a tasting panel consisting of ten 'well-trained testers' at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Bra, Italy. (Each tester, the authors assert reassuringly, 'had a minimum of two years' experience in sensory evaluation'.) Surprisingly, given how many stages occur between harvest and tasting -- milling, mixing and baking, besides the addition of yeast -- both the panel and the electronic nose were able to tell the loaves apart. The bread grown with enhanced mycorrhizal fungal community had a higher 'flavour intensity' and improved 'elasticity and crumbliness'. By smelling a flower, by chewing on twigs, leaves or bark, by drinking a wine, how many other aspects of a plant's mycorrhizal underground might we be able to taste? I often wonder." Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, pp. 148-9.

06.01.2022 Under the same Woolly bush as in my last post. Stoked with this one, this is another bucket list shot ticked off, Amegilla bubbling. For those unaware it's some...thing a lot of native bees do. They suck up a heap of nectar when they're feeding, but they're after the sugars and nectar has a high percentage of plain ol' water in it, so once they've got a gut load they pull up and regurgitate (or "bubble", 'cos it sounds nicer ) the nectar to evaporate the moisture, condensing the nectar. I've seen and photographed this with a stack of other native bees but what gets me every time is the clarity of the nectar bubble, you can see the inverted image of the view behind, the dry grass, the blue sky... and in the second pic his glossa (that's just science jargon for bees tongue) poking through, stretching and working the bubble to speed up the process... So cool... See more

05.01.2022 How awesome is David Holmgren! He’s just offered another chapter of Retrosuburbia for free download! The link is below this post. If you’re struggling to kno...w what to plant where, this will give you some serious help Permaculture is full of generous people that regularly give away their valuable knowledge. Why? We’re just trying to make the world a little bit better each day. See more

04.01.2022 How stunning is this?! Blue-banded bees can be found all over Australia but this little guy, a northern blue-banded bee, Amegilla walkeri, was found in Darwin! ...Have you seen any of these in your backyard? This week we celebrate #AustralianPollinatorWeek! Bees are just one of the many pollinators to be found across Australia. In fact, we have over 2,000 different species of native bees! Thanks Nick Volpe Wildlife Photography for this amazing image!